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Giant Armadillo
Priodontes maximus
Priodontes maximus is the largest armadillo, occasionally exceeding 50 kg, and it is built around a single enormous tool: the sickle-shaped third claw of the forefoot, which is one of the biggest claws relative to body size of any living mammal and is used to rip open the concre…
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- Despite their size, giant armadillos are rarely seen in the wild due to their secretive, nocturnal habits.
- Unlike the three-banded armadillo, a giant armadillo cannot roll into a ball; its armour is far too rigid, and its defence is to dig itself out of sight, which it can do with astonishing speed. Camera-trap work in the Pantanal found well over 20 vertebrate species using giant armadillo burrows, which stay cool and humid and are used as refuges from heat and fire. Reproduction is extremely slow — usually a single young, born after a long gestation, at low frequency — so the species cannot absorb hunting pressure. Its burrows are large enough for a person to crawl into.
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